Residents of New Mexico have been charged with federal charges

Five residents of a dilapidated desert complex in New Mexico are scheduled to attend a hearing and detention hearings after being indicted by a federal grand jury on firearms and conspiracy charges.

Federal prosecutors say the group was preparing for violent attacks on government, military, educational and financial institutions at the time of their arrest last month.

Jany Leveille, 35 years old; Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 40 years old; Hujrah Wahhaj, 37 years old; Subhanah Wahhaj, 35 years old; and Lucas Morton, 40, are scheduled to appear Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque.

The grand jury indictment alleges that they carried firearms and ammunition from Georgia to New Mexico in December 2017.

Prosecutors said the five members of the extended family had set up a training camp and a shooting range in Amalia, New Mexico, where they stocked firearms and ammunition and tactical training. . "

Eleven children were removed from the squalid complex near the Colorado State Line during a raid on August 3rd. The Taos County authorities returned three days later and found the body of a severely disabled 3-year-old boy, allegedly abducted by his father, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, in Georgia.

Leveille is from Haiti and has six children in custody during the raid, according to authorities who have reported being in the US for more than 20 years after exceeding their nonimmigrant visitor visa.

The conspiracy charge alleges that the other four conspired to provide Leveille with firearms and ammunition from at least November 2017.

Prosecutors have submitted evidence that Siraj Ibn Wahhaj has provided firearms training to some children, including tactical skills such as fast-loading pistols and moving shots.

In addition to rifles, handguns and ammunition, authorities said they found books on the effectiveness of combat and the construction of assault rifles during the raid.

Von Chelet Leveille said his sister and the rest of the group in the compound were misunderstood and he disputed allegations that children would learn to shoot.

He said that the two older children had asked to learn how to shoot and that the use of firearms by the family was legal and innocent. He also said that the group had gone to the desert because they no longer wanted to live as American Muslims in a society mostly populated by non-Muslims.